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Bill C-267

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 31, 2022
An Act to amend the Excise Act (non-alcoholic beer)
  • Summary: The bill, known as Bill C-267, is an amendment to the Excise Act and aims to eliminate excise duties on non-alcoholic beer or malt liquor that contains 0.5% or less absolute ethyl alcohol by volume. The purpose of this amendment is to remove taxes on these types of beverages.
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Context: House Hansard - 51 - Apr/1/22
Hon. Randy Boissonnault (Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Lib.)
Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for South Okanagan—West Kootenay for his private member's bill. We cannot comment on what will be revealed in the budget next week, but I do hear the member's appeal. I personally enjoy non-alcoholic beer, and I am thrilled to see the rise of craft breweries across the country. They are a tourism draw. We have heard the member opposite, and we will take his suggestions under advisement.
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Context: House Hansard - 51 - Apr/1/22
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
Madam Speaker, people across the country are facing the rising costs of gas, groceries and housing, and one way to help them is by eliminating taxes that do not make sense. Low-alcohol beer is a healthy and increasingly popular choice, yet it is charged the alcohol excise tax while low-alcohol wine and spirits are not. Yesterday, I introduced Bill C-267 to provide a simple fix for this anomaly. Will the government support this fix, put it in the budget and provide some relief for both craft brewers and consumers?
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Context: House Hansard - 50 - Mar/31/22
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-267, an act to amend the Excise Act (non-alcoholic beer). He said: Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise here today to introduce my private member's bill that would remove the excise tax on beer with less than 0.5% alcohol. I would like to thank the hon. member for Windsor West for seconding this bill. Since it is National Indigenous Languages Day, I will say lim'limpt to him in the language of the Syilx people of the Okanagan nation. This bill corrects a curious anomaly in the Excise Act where low-alcohol wine and spirits are not subject to the tax, but low-alcohol beer is. None of Canada's major trading partners have an excise tax on low-alcohol beer. Low-alcohol beer is a healthy and increasingly popular choice, and we should be encouraging rather than discouraging this, as the current tax does. My hometown of Penticton, British Columbia has been dubbed by Lonely Planet as the craft beer capital of Canada, and I hope that, by fixing this anomaly in the Excise Act, we will help expand the domestic production of low-alcohol beer and give Canadians more choice.
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